Pakistan has welcomed the letter on human rights and humanitarian situation in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir by members of the European Parliament to the President and Vice President of the European Commission.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said on Saturday: “Pakistan welcomes the letter by members of the European Parliament to the President and Vice President of the European Commission. This letter is yet another demonstration of the continuing global censure of the ongoing human rights violations and humanitarian crisis in IIOJK.
“Despite India continuously peddling false propaganda in futile attempts to push the sham narrative of so-called ‘normalcy’ in IIOJK, the global censure and condemnation of the Indian atrocities in IIOJK continue and have increased in the wake of the egregious violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms in IIOJK after India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019.
“The United Nations Security Council has discussed the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at least three times since 5 August 2019; the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has issued two reports in 2018 and 2019, making specific recommendations including the institution of an Independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate the gross and systematic human rights violations by India in the occupied territory; the global parliaments have debated the issue of Jammu and Kashmir; the international human rights and humanitarian organizations as well as global media have consistently raised the issue of human rights violations in IIOJK.
“India must realise that it cannot ignore the international community’s continuing calls to end its grave and systematic human rights violations of the Kashmiri people. India will have to ultimately give in to global conscience, end its unabated human rights violations in parts of Jammu and Kashmir under its illegal occupation and take steps for peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions and wishes of the Kashmiri people.”
PAK, CHINA DIALOGUE ON JAMMU, KASHMIR: In another statement, the spokesman rejected the remarks made by the Spokesperson of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), regarding the references to Jammu and Kashmir in the joint press release issued on the occasion of 3rd session of strategic dialogue between the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China.
He said: “We reject the gratuitous, unwarranted and baseless remarks made by the Spokesperson of the Indian MEA. India has no locus standi on the matter whatsoever.
“Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognised dispute. Parts of the State of Jammu and Kashmir are under illegal Indian occupation. The Jammu and Kashmir dispute is the oldest item on the agenda of the United Nations Security Council, pending resolution due to Indian intransigence.
“Regurgitation of false and fabricated claims by India does not change the reality that it is India which is in illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir for more than seven decades. Jammu and Kashmir never was and never will be the so-called ‘integral part’ of India.
“Numerous United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions have established that the final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir will be made in accordance with the wishes of the Kashmiri people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite held under the UN auspices.
“India’s illegal and unilateral actions of 5 August 2019, seeking to alter the internationally recognized disputed status of Jammu and Kashmir, and to change the demographic structure of the occupied territory, are in clear violation of the UN Charter, relevant UNSC resolutions, and international law.
India must immediately end its illegal occupation of parts of Jammu and Kashmir, stop its egregious violations of human rights in IIOJK, and take steps for full implementation of the relevant UNSC resolutions on the Jammu and Kashmir dispute.”
